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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The majority of jobs Obama preserved were government jobs.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
What Obama made there was a trillion dollar promise. You can't treat it as just another broken election promise because of the money attached to it. American tax payers have every right to expect the promised results when they are paying such a premium price. Dipping above 8% briefly would have been one thing but, to be that wrong with that amount of wealth spent is unforgiveable.
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This argument remains an obvious non-sequitur, and a rather blatant example of willful bias.
Why would you expect his projection to be gospel?
Why are you basing judgment of the impact/wisdom of his policies on a speech?
Do you consider Bush being wrong about WMDs to be unforgivable?
Bush had more time to explore the issue, more sources of information to draw from, used more sensationalist rhetoric, and his blunder had far more broad implications than domestic projections.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
And again it needs to be acknowledged: Obama isn't responsible for this down turn but, he took the job fully aware of the challenges before him. 3 years in is a little late to be giving Obama a pass because he didn't create the mess.
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I'm not giving him a pass, I don't think I've said that I disagree with you.
I'm asking what criteria you (and others) intended to use to evaluate whether or not Obama is "up to the challenge."